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¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement Knuth Hall, SFSU Thursday, March 8, 2012 6-9pm The Departments of Sociology, Latina/Latino Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University invite you to celebrate International Women’s Day with Dr. Maylei Blackwell, Associate Professor of Chicano/a Studies at UCLA and author of ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement. ¡Chicana Power! is the first book-length study of women’s involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, As Chicanos engaged in widespread protest in their struggle for social justice, civil rights, and self-determination, women in el movimiento became increasingly militant about the gap between the rhetoric of equality and the organizational culture that suppressed women’s leadership and subjected women to chauvinism, discrimination, and sexual harassment. Based on rich oral histories and extensive archival research, Dr. Blackwell analyzes the struggles over gender and sexuality within the Chicano Movement and illustrates how those struggles produced new forms of racial consciousness, gender awareness, and political identities

¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement

Knuth Hall, SFSU

Thursday, March 8, 2012 6-9pm

The Departments of Sociology, Latina/Latino Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University invite you to celebrate International Women’s Day with Dr. Maylei Blackwell, Associate Professor of Chicano/a Studies at UCLA and author of ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement. 

¡Chicana Power! is the first book-length study of women’s involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, As Chicanos engaged in widespread protest in their struggle for social justice, civil rights, and self-determination, women in el movimiento became increasingly militant about the gap between the rhetoric of equality and the organizational culture that suppressed women’s leadership and subjected women to chauvinism, discrimination, and sexual harassment. Based on rich oral histories and extensive archival research, Dr. Blackwell analyzes the struggles over gender and sexuality within the Chicano Movement and illustrates how those struggles produced new forms of racial consciousness, gender awareness, and political identities

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